what does the doj do next? what is the next move here? it really echoes what you heard from the attorney general merrick garland a few weeks ago saying there would be essentially, paraphrasing here, no stone left unturned and at all different levels. why this is important of course is because frankly as you know human nach aurt times is to follow and you can easily replace foot soldiers, somebody willing to take on the role of somebody to carry out the directives of another person, a higher up. you see that in drug trafficking cases for example. you ve got the foot soldiers, and the people who are the ring leaders. it is important to target those who are ring leaders and delegate responsibility because it essentially cuts it off at the neck to be able to say, listen, we ll prevent somebody from being in a position again to try to direct somebody else to engage in criminal behavior and the deterrent aspect is what is so important here. naturally if you have prosecutions against those
included people i may need you a little closer to the microphone. i ll let the producers work with you and talk to laura until we get your audio straightened out. we re also getting a look at rioters inside and outside the capitol breaking open the eastern rotunda doors. you can see a man helping the rioters in the building to get into the building. prosecutors say he is an active duty marine. i mean, there have been hundreds of arrests of rioters but what about the planners? the number here is the number two at the justice department and what he said today about it. we are going to follow the facts and the law wherever they lead to address conduct of any kind and at any level that is part of an assault on our democracy. i should say what she said. that was lisa monaco. what does the doj do next? what is the next move here? it really echoes what you heard from the attorney general merrick garland a few weeks ago saying there would be
may be organized, organizing, financing, facilitating actions like this. that s how you really prevent future occurrences as well. laura, also tonight we are learning doj is looking into the trump supporters behind the fake 2020 election certificates that would have declared trump the winner in states that he actually lost. there it is up on your screen right there. do you think there is enough evidence here to file criminal charges? it is shocking to think people were so prepared to try to undermine certification process and undermine the will of the people. it wasn t just a hypothetical scenario reduced to a memo. there were actually people in position to provide fake, false electors in lieu of those who were actual electors to overturn it. this is all part of the overall strategic plan as we know about trying to advise the vice president then mike pence on what to do next. and so we had very clear rules in this country about not
laura, also tonight we are learning doj is looking into the trump supporters behind the fake 2020 election certificates that would have declared trump the winner in states that he actually lost. there it is up on your screen right there. do you think there is enough evidence here to file criminal charges? it is shocking to think people were so prepared to try to undermine certification process and undermine the will of the people. it wasn t just a hypothetical scenario reduced to a memo. there were actually people in position to provide fake, false electors in lieu of those who were actual electors to overturn it. this is all part of the overall strategic plan as we know about trying to advise the vice president then mike pence on what to do next. and so we had very clear rules in this country about not interfering with elections. it is criminal to try to conduct fraud in elections. of course it is curious here, fraud is a pretext for why you have the clawing back of so many voting